The Justice Department has launched what it describes as its final wave of lawsuits challenging state and local laws that allow undocumented students to access in-state tuition and related higher-education benefits. The new suits target Hawaii, Arkansas, Utah, and the District of Columbia, extending a litigation campaign with potentially significant consequences for immigration policy, public university systems, and the balance
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D.C. Circuit Rejects Bid to Force Michigan Coal Plant to Stay Open
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit dealt a notable setback to the Trump administration by blocking an effort to keep a Michigan coal-fired power plant operating under claimed emergency authority. In siding with a coalition of states and environmental groups, the court concluded there was no genuine emergency sufficient to justify extraordinary federal intervention.
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25 years on, ILTA remembers the 9/11 attacks
Twenty five years on from the horrific terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center in New York, the International Legal Technology Association has shared emotional video footage featuring interviews with […]
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Startup Corner: SaaS Tracker takes aim at hidden contract change risk
Founded in August 2026 by former lawyer Brig Ricks, SaaS Tracker helps legal and operations teams keep on top of changing software terms, privacy policies and online contracts, using AI […]
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Xapien raises $56m funding round
Xapien, an London-founded AI-native due diligence platform that investigates people and companies, has announced a $56m investment round led by Spectrum Equity, a growth equity firm that specialises in risk […]
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Latham builds its own AI models with Nvidia GPU server investment
US multinational law firm Latham & Watkins has bought Nvidia GPU servers and started customising its own AI models, the Financial Times revealed yesterday (11 September). Latham, the US’s second-largest […]
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Cognizant Gets New Trial After Judge Tosses $8.4M Bias Verdict
A New York federal judge has ordered a new trial for Cognizant Technology Solutions after an employee won an $8.4 million verdict on claims that he was fired for reporting pro-Indian hiring bias. In a notable post-trial ruling, the court concluded that allowing the verdict to stand would amount to a “miscarriage of justice,” wiping away what had been a…
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From Innovation Labs to Embedded Intelligence: How AI Is Reshaping Big Law
From : Blog Entry >> Damian’s Blog EntryPlease enjoy this blog post co-authored by Damian Priamurskiy, Legal Project Manager, Lowenstein Sandler LLP and Julianne Kasprzyk Crowley, Paralegal Manager, Investment Management, Lowenstein Sandler LLP. For much of the past century, the organizational chart of large law firms has had one shape: a pyramid, partners at the apex, associates below climbing…
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PTAB Sets the Roadmap in IPR2026-00273: What the Scheduling Order Signals
The Patent Trial and Appeal Board’s latest entry in IPR2026-00273 is a scheduling order, not a merits decision—but practitioners should not dismiss it as routine. In PTAB practice, the scheduling order is often the document that quietly defines the real shape of the case: deadlines, sequencing, and the procedural framework that will govern how the parties present their evidence and…
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Unions and Trump Administration Reach Deal in Shutdown Layoff Fight
A coalition of labor unions has reached a settlement in principle with the Trump administration in California federal court over litigation challenging layoffs carried out at federal agencies during the 2025 government shutdown. While the final terms have not yet been detailed publicly, the agreement appears to pause what had become a closely watched dispute over how far the executive…
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Better Performance, but at What Cost? Evaluating LLMs for Legal Research
A new benchmark finds that LLMs struggle to complete legal research tasks on their own, even as users pay a premium for the most advanced models.
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'You Can't Hide Anymore': Stanford Tackles Tech Transformation With Legal Engineering Academy
Stanford Law School is hosting a program to define and train the next generation of legal engineers, a role that has grown in prominence as law firms and legal teams face growing pressure to adopt AI.
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Move Faster or Get Bypassed: AI Is Raising the Cost of a Slow Legal Department
At a discussion Thursday during Running Legal Like a Business Conference in Las Vegas, panelists explored how AI should help move legal expertise, data and risk intelligence closer to the point where the business makes decisions.
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White & Case Invests in Former Saudi Lawyer's AI Company
Former White & Case local partner Waad Alkurini founded a Saudi AI company, a trend already seen in the U.S.
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‘Facebook Kept Telling Us It Was OK': New Mexico AG Opens New Trial Against Meta
The trial, which is expected to last four weeks in Santa Fe’s First Judicial District Court, addresses alleged misstatements Facebook made amid the Cambridge Analytica scandal about user data.
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